Dr Elisa Maria Baggio Saitovitch is staff member of the Centro Brazileiro de Pezquisas FĂsicas (CBPF), Brazil. She received her PhD from CBPF. Her experimental work concerns the production of materials and the characterization of their structural, magnetic and transport properties, including heavy-fermion materials and pnictides at high pressure. She has been elected Member of the AIRAPT Executive Committee in 2013. E-mail: elisa@cbpf.br .